On Tuesday 18 Oct 2011 23:22:38 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:02:20 +0100, Mick wrote:
> > After some further investigation it is worth reporting that the problem
> > was caused not by knotify, but by kdeinit!
> > 
> > I exited X and stopped xdm.  Only one knotify4 was left running as well
> > as the kdeinit, both pegged at 100% and neither would go away after the
> > X session had exited.  I was able to kill -15 the knotify PID, but the
> > kdeinit would not shift until I used kill -9.
> 
> It's actually kded4 causing the problem, and it is a known issue.
> killall -9 kded4 gets things working again.

You're right - was posting from memory, which is not what it used to be!  I am 
convinced that by the end of the day I am experiencing some badblocks.  ;-)
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Regards,
Mick